If you are released on licence, then you can be recalled at any time until your licence ends. You
Author: Francesca Cooney Advice Information Manager Prison Reform Trust
Unfortunately, assaults and crime in prison remain high. The recent annual report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons found
Last week, there were two news stories about television. The first, in the Mirror and Express stated that it
Recent issues of Inside Time have quoted the Carson case on pensions and suggested that this may be relevant
The long awaited policy on ROTL (release on temporary licence) is now out. Prison Service Instruc- tion 13/22015 was
We have just published a briefing on ROTL and we have recently been getting a number of queries about
NOMS receives around 2,000 claims from individuals a year. Most of these are about personal injury, property and unlawful detention.
There has been a lot of media attention recently about the rise in violent incidents in prison. The records
The rules for foreign national prisoners going to open prisons have changed. Unfortunately, it is now more difficult to
Vertical shadows on the wall Fence outside, straight and tall Footsteps on the steel floor Someone peeps through the
A recent report from the National Audit Office (NAO) confirms what many people knew already – short sentences just
1st prize winner of the Prison Reform Trust’s writing competition 2013 lyric / rap category I will wax lyrical in
In April this year, the way that healthcare in prison is run changed because the NHS was restructured. A
We often get queries from people who would like to move abroad when they are released from prison. It
Looking after people who have additional support needs can be a challenge for prison officers. The question of social
The Prison Reform Trust is concerned about people who stay in prison when their sentence has finished because they are
The Incentives and Earned Privileges system has been around since 1995. It supports an ‘exchange’. The idea is that people in
Prisoners may be transferred from one prison to another for a number of reasons. It can be very difficult
Up till now, there have been two systems for allowing numbers on to a prisoners pin account – ‘call
The difficulties people experience on remand are the same as anyone else in prison. People can still lose their